The Spiritual Life Quotes
The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.
Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps pushing toward us. Why not step forward and greet it.
No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.
Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.
Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.
Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.
There is no failure in the spiritual life, as long as we do not give up the fight.
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.
If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.
A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.
Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.
There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.
Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.
This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.
Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.
The greatest moments in life are the ones right in front of you.
Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.
Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.
If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.
I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior!
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.
Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.